Federal Reports

This limited scope review is a follow up to our 2012 country program evaluation of Peace Corps/Peru. This report focused on five findings from the 2012 evaluation related to programming, training, and safety and security. We found that the post had appropriately responded to each of our 2012 recommendations, and the actions taken had a positive effect on the issues identified in 2012. There are no recommendations in this follow up.

We determined that Volunteer Energy Cooperative (Volunteer) accounted for and expended FEMA funds according to Federal regulations and FEMA guidelines. Volunteer properly accounted for and adequately supported its claim of $8.3 million for disaster-related activities. However, Volunteer’s contracting process did not meet all Federal procurement requirements. Volunteer used its own contracting procedures to award $6.5 million of noncompetitive contracts for disaster-related work. We concluded that exigent circumstances warranted Volunteer’s use of noncompetitive contracts. However, we noted that Volunteer’s contracting procedures did not meet other Federal procurement requirements. We are not questioning any contract costs in this case because of the exigent nature of the work and other extenuating circumstances regarding the timing of the disaster declaration and completion of the contract work. Because the audit did not identify any issues requiring further action from FEMA Region IV, we consider this audit closed.